tick
noun
[ tɪk ]
• a mark (✓) used to indicate that an item in a list or text is correct or has been chosen, checked, or dealt with.
• a regular short, sharp sound, especially that made by a clock or watch.
• "the comforting tick of the grandfather clock"
Similar:
clicking,
click,
clack,
clacking,
click-clack,
ticking,
tick-tock,
snick,
snicking,
plock,
plocking,
beat,
tap,
tapping,
• the smallest recognized amount by which a price of a security or future may fluctuate.
tick
verb
• mark (an item) with a tick or select (a box) on a form, questionnaire, etc. to indicate that something has been chosen, checked, approved, or dealt with.
• "just tick the appropriate box below"
• (of a clock or other mechanical device) make regular short, sharp sounds, typically one for every second of time that passes.
• "I could hear the clock ticking"
Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘pat, touch’): probably of Germanic origin and related to Dutch tik (noun), tikken (verb) ‘pat, touch’. The noun was recorded in late Middle English as ‘a light tap’; current senses date from the late 17th century.
tick
noun
• a parasitic arachnid that attaches itself to the skin of a terrestrial vertebrate from which it sucks blood, leaving the host when sated. Some species transmit diseases, including tularaemia and Lyme disease.
• a worthless or contemptible person.
• "he was shown up in court for the little tick that he was"
Origin:
Old English ticia, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch teek and German Zecke .
tick
noun
• a fabric case stuffed with feathers or other material to form a mattress or pillow.
Origin:
late Middle English: probably Middle Low German, Middle Dutch tēke, or Middle Dutch tīke, via West Germanic from Latin theca ‘case’, from Greek thēkē .
on tick
• on credit.
• "the printer agreed to send the brochures out on tick"
